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Which potatoes for baked/boiled/roast ?

  • 30-05-2006 6:53pm
    #1
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭


    As a guy who usually cooks with rice/noodles/pasta I've only
    ventured back to the humble (but much loved) potato in recent
    times.

    I've found Roosters to be the best potato for mashing.
    Peel them/boil them/mash them with a masher & butter & milk
    and salt to taste. Seems to work fine. Mind you roosters are
    old this time of year and quick to seed and grow eyes even
    when stored in dark place.

    In the summer I love baked potatoes. Which variety on the
    Irish market is best for baked ? Anyone advise ??
    What's your cooking time for baked ? Any cooking tips ?

    Roast potatoes.. I'm guessing golden wonders or wilsons
    potatoes might be the best but this is only a guess.
    My wife makes the roasts. I'm just trying to get in touch
    with my inner potato.

    All suggestions welcome!

    _ ifc


Comments

  • #2
    babaduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭babaduck


    Because there's only two of us in the house & we don't eat spuds every day, I tend to buy the 4-pack of Baking Potatoes from Tesco. They're a great all-purpose potato which I use for mash, garlic & rosemary roasties, and baked spuds (my fave!) :D

    I cheat hugely when doing baked potatoes because I rarely have the time to leave them in the oven for ages. I prick them all over, wrap them in kitchen paper & nuke them for 7-8 mins each depending on size. Then I rub them with a drop of olive oil (using the kitchen paper), sprinkle them with Maldon salt & then stick them in the oven on 220c for 30 mins.

    And I eat the skins!!!


  • #3
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    kerr's pink make lovely sweet chips and roasters. the mother wont buy roosters, she doestn like em.


  • #4
    utopian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭utopian


    Golden wonders make the nicest mash. Roosters and Kerrs Pink are good too.

    KP or roosters make a good roastie, but GW break down during par-boiling, I find.

    Bought those Wilson's Country Garden potatoes once, and didn't mention it to the parents. Next thing I found a bag of KP hidden in the press...

    People who buy generic "white", "red" etc. potatoes from Tesco? What can you say about such wrong-headedness?


  • #5
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    Many thanks for the replies !

    How about Records variety of spuds ?

    What do they excel at ? I saw a blackboard mentioning special
    offer on records today outside our local vegetable shop and
    wondered. I was rushing and didn't bother to go into the veg
    shop to ask..


  • #6
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    chips. thye make lovely chips :)


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